[Sehefac] Fwd: ree botts-ward PPF - Home/Girl Healin'

[Jennifer Syvertsen]

Please see below for a talk of potential interest!

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Hello All,

Please join us on 3/12 @ 3pm in INTN 2027 for a talk presented by UC
President's Postdoctoral Fellow reelaviolette botts-ward.  You can find
information below.  Please let me know if you have any questions.

*TITLE*
*Home/Girl Healin': The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist
Healing Arts in Oakland, California*

*ABSTRACT*
reelaviolette botts-ward, PhD, is a UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow at
UCSF and with UC Davis. Across projects, her work explores how Black women
use art and ritual to heal from structural violence. She is a
Contributor-in-Residence with Columbia University's Health Humanities
Journal, and founder of blackwomxnhealing
<https://www.blackwomxnhealing.com/> - an intergenerational wellness
collective that supports the holistic well-being of Black women.

This presentation will focus on ree's current book project, *Home/Girl
Healin': The Sacred Geographies of Everyday Black Feminist Healing Arts in
Oakland, California. Home/Girl Healin' *is an urban ethnography that
centers unhoused and housing-insecure Black women as curators of healthcare
and healing. Drawing on eight years of research, it illuminates
how everyday feminists use diasporic art praxis to curate sites of care in
the wake of displacement.

*Home/Girl Healin' *contributes to debates on health, housing, and
healing. This project merges Medical Anthropology, Medical Humanities,
Black Geographies, and the arts to show how Black women's artistic and
autonomous communal care solutions foster decolonial repair beyond the
clinical space. As Black women’s contentious relationship to the medical
industrial complex garners increasing national attention, this work
provides insight into reparative art-based healthcare interventions for
displaced Black women. It also offers timely insight into new theoretical
and methodological tools for researching wellness among marginalized
communities.

*BIO *

reelaviolette botts-ward (she/her) is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow
with the Reparations and Anti-Institutional Racism (REPAIR
<https://repair.ucsf.edu/home>) Project at the University of California,
San Francisco in the Medical Anthropology Program. At UCSF, ree brings
radical Black feminist healing arts to medical science spaces.

She is an affiliate of American Studies at UC Davis, and of the Berkeley
Center for Social Medicine at the Institute for the Study of Societal
Issues. She is also the 2024 Poet in Residence at the Museum of the African
Diaspora, and a Contributor in Residence for Columbia University’s Health
Humanities Journal, where she writes on holistic healing for scholars,
patients, and practitioners.

As founder of blackwomxnhealing <https://www.blackwomxnhealing.com/>,
ree brings
her research, teaching, and service to broader publics. She curates
courses, care circles, publications, and exhibits with everyday Black women
at the center. In this way, she bridges gaps between academic and community
audiences through multi-medium arts.

ree received her PhD in African Diaspora Studies from the University of
California, Berkeley, her MA in African American Studies with a
Specialization in Anthropology from UCLA, and her BA in Sociology and
Anthropology from Spelman College.


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To learn more about ree’s work, visit blackwomxnhealing.com/reelaviolette
<https://www.blackwomxnhealing.com/reelaviolette>.

-- 
Anthony Russell Jerry, PhD, MBA

Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Riverside


-- 
Jennifer Syvertsen, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor & Chair
Department of Anthropology
University of California, Riverside
900 University Ave, 1320B Watkins Hall
Riverside, CA 92521
Email: jsyverts at ucr.edu
Book an appointment here
<https://calendly.com/office-hours-fall24/office-hours-winter-2025>
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